{"author_link":"\/users\/escapade","author_name":"Escapade","author_uid":"escapade","comments":[],"epoch":1621430479,"event":"LD48","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":257281,"likes":7,"metadata":{"p_key":"158317","p_author":"Escapade","p_authorkey":"1236404","p_urlkey":"378564","p_title":"Some thoughts after the jam","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD48","p_time":"1621430479","p_likes":"7","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1236404","us_name":"LDJam user 236404","us_username":"236404","event_start":"1619222400","event_key":"109","event_name":"Ludum Dare 48"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":233335,"_trust":3,"author":236404,"body":"This was my first jam, and the first game I ever published. The results are below.\n![Screenshot_20210519_210401.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/47b\/93\/z\/42996.jpg)\nTbh at first I was kind of disappointed in the results. I was hoping for at least a top 500 overall ranking, and while 500 was a bit high 1180 was a bit out of my expectations. I was also expecting higher rankings in humour and mood, since humour was an integral part of the game and my impression was that a lot of games either opted out of the humour category or didn't really have humour as a thing in their game. Also, even though there were close to no sound effects in the game I hoped the harsh white lighting and text would create at least a decent mood.\n\nBut then again maybe my expectations were a bit too high, especially for my first jam:\n- Being my first jam, I focused a lot more on functionality than polish, so in the end most of the game functioned as I wanted, but a lot of stuff like sound effects got left out because there was not enough time.\n- I was extremely inexperienced (6 months of coding, 4 months of Unity), going up against more experienced devs\n- I was working alone, going up against teams of people (maybe the Compo category would have been better?)\n\nStill, ratings aren't everything, and I think I learnt a lot from this game jam, and I look forward to LD49 which I can hopefully participate in.","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2021-05-19T23:33:59Z","created":"2021-05-19T13:03:31Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":257281,"love":7,"love-timestamp":"2021-05-19T16:56:59Z","meta":[],"modified":"2021-05-19T23:33:59Z","name":"Some thoughts after the jam","node-timestamp":"2021-05-19T13:21:19Z","parent":236406,"parents":[1,5,9,233335,236406],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/bunker\/some-thoughts-after-the-jam","published":"2021-05-19T13:21:19Z","scope":"public","slug":"some-thoughts-after-the-jam","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":792129},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"257281","n_urlkey":"378564","n_parent":"236406","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/bunker\/some-thoughts-after-the-jam","n_slug":"some-thoughts-after-the-jam","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"236404","n_created":"1621429411","n_modified":"1621467239","n_version":"792129","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/bunker\/some-thoughts-after-the-jam","text":"This was my first jam, and the first game I ever published. The results are below.\n![Screenshot_20210519_210401.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/47b\/93\/z\/42996.jpg)\nTbh at first I was kind of disappointed in the results. I was hoping for at least a top 500 overall ranking, and while 500 was a bit high 1180 was a bit out of my expectations. I was also expecting higher rankings in humour and mood, since humour was an integral part of the game and my impression was that a lot of games either opted out of the humour category or didn't really have humour as a thing in their game. Also, even though there were close to no sound effects in the game I hoped the harsh white lighting and text would create at least a decent mood.\n\nBut then again maybe my expectations were a bit too high, especially for my first jam:\n- Being my first jam, I focused a lot more on functionality than polish, so in the end most of the game functioned as I wanted, but a lot of stuff like sound effects got left out because there was not enough time.\n- I was extremely inexperienced (6 months of coding, 4 months of Unity), going up against more experienced devs\n- I was working alone, going up against teams of people (maybe the Compo category would have been better?)\n\nStill, ratings aren't everything, and I think I learnt a lot from this game jam, and I look forward to LD49 which I can hopefully participate in.","title":"Some thoughts after the jam","wayback_source":[]}